(Yicai) March 11 -- Some Chinese companies showcased their artificial intelligence recruitment tools, including virtual reality job hunting and face scan smart job applications, at the smart employment area of a job fair for university graduates in Shanghai.

Shanghai Tiny Brick Network Technology brought its No. 1 Job Hunting Machine that can shorten job applications to just 10 seconds at the career fair. “Job hunters can scan their face to confirm their identity, swipe the screen to choose positions they are applying for, and then send their resumes,” Rong Haixu, founder of Tiny Brick, told Yicai.

The machine has been serving nearly 700,000 employers, reaching more than 50 million job hunters, Rong noted, adding that over half of the job hunters in the emerging manufacturing and industrial intelligence fields who used the machine have succeeded in finding a job.

More human resource companies should join the construction of infrastructures for digital employment, work together in AI-generated content, and improve their procedures of posting job vacancies based on their knowledge of AI technologies, Rong suggested.

Chuangxin Group’s space capsule-like Intelligent Employment E-Station that is being put into use in Shanghai can enable prolonged interactions between employers and job hunters via livestreaming, tutoring, video interviews, and vocational ability assessment, Hou Xu, the developer of the device and the company’s chief government affairs officer, told Yicai.

AI can help employers find more suitable employees at lower costs, Li Hong, a career guide, said at the job fair. AI knows more about industry segmentation than career guides and can help job hunters quickly find information about the development of an industry and its upstream and downstream segments, Li noted.

Various measures are needed to promote the optimization and allocation of human resources, given the aging population issue, said Zhou Guoliang, director of the Shanghai Employment Promotion Center.

Editor: Futura Costaglione